Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Victorian gentlemen would just huff weird distillates they made in a lab and be like "huh, guess this is chloroform now" and sell it to dentists a couple of days later, AI has the same energy to me

learning the deeply "fuck around and find out"-based history of organic chemistry makes a lot of what's happening with AI make sense to me

@brendannyhan big Immortan Joe vibes

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-17/ the week in sentences: the blood of cream cheese, america's biggest export, the celestial hierarchy, a moral lecture, grammatical flexibility

@ranjit @kissane also I learned how to do pixel art from those message boards

@ranjit @kissane ok thanks for a very fun flash game and also for message boards where as a teenager I was taken seriously by adults in a way that really meant a lot at a tender age

me, having been awake since 5:30am and gone to Delaware and back in a day: why am I so sleepy

@ranjit @kissane (also, second this, the sissyfight forums were amazing)

@ranjit @kissane wait ranjit you were there too????

sometimes I'll get follow requests on IG from people who I'm pretty sure are interested in my work and I think I need to change my bio to be clear that the locked account is 99.8% pictures of my dog

update: the Atlantic and Court Walgreens put cash on the card for me!

I'm something of a rapid unscheduled disassembly myself

@misc whoa that's wild though

fuck, guys, I need to interview Gloria Minsky (Marvin's widow)? she may be the only person who attended even parts of that workshop who's still alive? how do I pull this off

the number of times a day that the video game Hatris (a sequel to Tetris, but with hats) comes up in my household seems unusually high

@c_9 it's a really good article!

do I feel good or bad that my website is ranked higher than the website of someone I don't like very much, this is hard

@writerethink I'm excited to see this become a clout thing ("is your website even in the C4 dataset?")